Westland Cop Calls

•The owner of a vacant home in the 7300 block of Affeldt told police March 19 that someone had stolen the central air conditioning unit from the home sometime over the previous three days. The owner, a resident of Woodstock, Ontario, valued at unit at $2,760.

•A Westland woman told police March 20 that she went to check on a vacant rental home she owns in the 32000 block of Melton and found someone had removed the aluminum siding. She said she last saw the house sided Feb. 1. The siding was valued at $2,500.

•On March 20, a Garden City man told police that he arrived at a vacant home in the 30000 block of Hiveley that he owns and is being remodeled to find a basement window broken. Inside, he said all the copper pipes from the basement, valued at $600, were gone.

•A Manchester woman told police March 17 that she is in the process of selling a home in the 300 block of S. Merriman and it has been vacant for sometime. The house is secured with dead bolt locks and has a realtor lock box.

The woman said she was notified by her real estate agent on March 10 that the lock box had been destroyed and the key used to enter the house. Missing were copper plumbing from the basement, along a new stainless steel sink and five or six boxes of wood laminate flooring taken from the living room.

The flooring and sink were valued at $500.

Fraud

On March 17, a Westland woman told police that she had been alerted March 1 that someone had withdrawn all the money off her Social Security benefits card. Two transactions, $221.70 and $289.21, were made in Nashville, Tennessee.

Suspicious circumstances

A resident in the 200 block of Lollypop at Westland Meadows Mobile Home Park told police March 16 at about 3 a.m. during a thunderstorm she heard someone jiggling the door to her mobile home trying to get inside.

In the morning, she said she found the drivers side window of her had been popped out of the track and forced down without breaking it. She said the vehicle was ransacked but nothing was missing.

Money missing

A resident at Hope Healthcare Center, 38410 Cherry Hill told police March 17 that four days earlier her daughter had given her $50 cash to get her hair done. The woman said she put the money into a plastic jar in her room but found it was missing when she wanted to get her hair done.

Missing tools

On March 19, two residents in the 39000 block of Avondale told police that someone had broken into their vehicles and stolen tools.

The thefts were reported just after 10 p.m. One man reported a jackhammer and a snow blower stolen from the bed of his truck. He said he saw a man in a gray hoodie standing hear the back of his truck and went outside to investigate. Then he said he noticed the man inside his neighbor’s van. The suspect fled when he yelled at him, the man said.

As he walked to tell his neighbor what had happened, the man said he noticed the items missing from his truck.

The neighbor told police an unspecified number of work tools were missing from his vehicle. The suspect was described as fleeing southbound on Surrey Heights in a small gray sedan which had one headlight out.

Vandalism

On March 19, a resident in the 100 block of S. Parent told police that sometime overnight someone had thrown a rock through her front living room window causing a hole and shattering it. The rock came from her landscaping. The damage was set at $1,000.

Vehicles damaged

•Two residents in the 29000 block of Richard told police that vehicles had been damaged March 15. One resident said the door lock had been punched on the vehicle drivers door but nothing was missing from the vehicle.

A second resident told police that someone had scratched the entire drivers side of her vehicle and punctured the front passenger tire.

•On March 19, a resident in the 1200 block of Michael told police that overnight someone had broken both front windows and cracked the windshield on a vehicle.

•A resident in the 32000 block of Avondale told police March 19 that someone had damaged her rental car by throwing a brick at it.